Myomectomy during Caesarean Birth in Fibroid-Endemic, Low-Resource Settings

Table 1

Characteristics	Authors
	Roman and Tabsh [17]	Kwawukume [1]	Gbadebo et al. [19]	Dimitrov et al. [37]	Ehigiegba et al. [28]
No. of cases (controls)	111 (257)	12 (12)	22	21 (162)	25
Position of fibroids
Upper segment/corpus uteri		85%	45.5% (10)	63%
Lower segment		15%	27.3% (6)	23%
Both segments			27.3% (6)
Types
Pedunculated	23%		52.2% (24)
Subserous	24%				94.8%
Intramural	24%	85%	34.8% (16)	46%
Submucous	5%		13% (6)		5.2%
Multiple sites	18%
Sizes
Mean (range)	Median 3.5 cm (0.9–30 cm)	6 cm
Value (number/%)	<3 cm (40/36%); ≥3–<6 cm (46/41.4%); ≥6 cm (22/19.8%)		6–10 cm (32/69.9%)		2–10 cm
Nodules removed		1–6 per patient	46	1/patient (85%)	84